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We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"

Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their Representatives and demand that they avoid the "fiscal cliff."
The group's latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter, but its potential consequences call out for tears.
The writing borders on the unintelligble, as when it urges people to contact their Member of Congress and say this:
"I'm calling to urge the Represntative (sic) to pass an agreement to
tackle our nation's debt crisis that is supported by members of both
parties that both raises revenue and cuts government spending in order
to pave the way for a strong economic future."
Now try saying it three times fast.
It's easy to make fun of something this inept, and the overpaid
cynics at Fix the Debt - and fellow shell organizations like the
Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget - certainly have it coming.
But this time they've crossed a line. They're claiming to speak in the
very interests of the people who would be most hurt by their actions.
Shame on them.
The email provides a script to be used when calling your
Representative. They suggest you begin by saying that the
deficit "matters to me because ______________".
It then offers three "helpful" examples of how that sentence might be
completed, by a concerned parent, a small business owner, and a veteran
- three of the many populations whose financial security would be
gravely wounded by Fix the Debt's political agenda.
That doesn't mean everybody would be hurt by it, of course. Here are some scripts that the group's real beneficiaries might want to use:-- I'm rich as hell - I mean, I'm not naming figures, but we're talking stinkin' rich - and I want to cut Social Security and Medicare while lowering my own corporate and personal taxes.
-- I'm a corporate CEO who's been shipping jobs overseas, and
we've had record profits while paying record-low amounts to the IRS. But
that's not enough. I want to do even less for my country.
-- I'm a defense contractor and, while I thank you for the break
you've already given me this week, I really need to make sure I don't
sacrifice even a tiny bit in the name of deficit reduction.
-- I invest in the for-profit health industry and business is
booming. I want you to do everything you can to undermine Medicare and
Medicaid so I can pump up my profits even more.
-- I'm a Wall Street executive and I'm expecting to get more
401(k) investment funds once you gut Social Security. I also receive a
deeply perverse satisfaction from not helping to fix the economy I
destroyed, and I'm counting on you not to harsh my mellow.
Now here are Fix the Debt's own sample phone scripts. We've added some additional dialog, and given each one a name:Competitive SpiritFix the Debt phone-in script:I am a small business owner and my success and the jobs of my employees depend on a strong economy. (Note: Bad grammar is theirs.)Additional dialog: So please pass a bill that favors
billionaires and giant corporations, while gutting the Small Business
Administration and other programs that help folks like me.
I especially like that "chained CPI," which forces middle-class
people into higher tax brackets and deprives them of even more money
they might otherwise have spent on consumer goods. That will lower
demand, making it even more unlikely that my competitors and I will be
able to grow, prosper, and hire more workers.
I really hate my competitors.A Better LifeFix the Debt phone-in script:I am a parent and don't want
to kick the can down the road for my kids' generation to deal with
crippling national debt or a double dip recession. (Note: Bad grammar is theirs.)Additional dialog: So please implement the "chained CPI,"
which will gut their future Social Security benefits while raising their
taxes throughout their working lives. I also want a plan that
arbitrarily reduces Medicare benefits over time so there's nothing left
by the time they get old.
My college-aged kids are graduating to record-level unemployment, too, but please don't spend any money to help with that.
Please cut education funding, too, from elementary school all the way
up to Pell grants. Education's the key to advancement, and right now my
kids dream of a better life than the one we had.
I really resent that.Some Gave AllFix the Debt phone-in script: I am a veteran, and I know that our nation's fiscal strength is a matter of national security.Additional dialog: So please help defense contractors like the ones who did all that defective wiring and killed my friends over in Iraq.
Please be sure to implement the "chained CPI" while you're at it, too, since more than nine million of my fellow vets are on Social Security. Way I see it, they haven't sacrificed enough for their country.Four thousand children
who lost a parent in Iraq get Social Security benefits too. I know I
told my buddy over there I'd look after his kids if something happened,
but what the hell: maybe you folks and all your friends in Washington
are right..
Maybe those kids haven't sacrificed enough either.

JUST some well written thoughts from Michael Moore on Christmas Eve 2012
After watching the deranged, delusional National Rifle Association
press conference on Friday, it was clear that the Mayan prophecy had
come true. Except the only world that was ending was the NRA’s. Their
bullying power to set gun policy in this country is over. The nation is
repulsed by the massacre in Connecticut, and the signs are everywhere: a basketball coach at a post-game press conference; the Republican Joe Scarborough; a pawn shop owner in Florida; a gun buy-back program in New Jersey; a singing contest show on TV, and the conservative gun-owning judge who sentenced Jared Loughner.
So here’s my little bit of holiday cheer for you:
These gun massacres aren’t going to end any time soon.
I’m sorry to say this. But deep down we both know it’s true. That
doesn’t mean we shouldn’t keep pushing forward – after all, the momentum
is on our side. I know all of us – including me – would love to see the
president and Congress enact stronger gun laws. We need a ban on
automatic AND semiautomatic weapons and magazine clips that hold more
than 7 bullets. We need better background checks and more mental health
services. We need to regulate the ammo, too.
But, friends, I would like to propose that while all of the above
will certainly reduce gun deaths (ask Mayor Bloomberg – it is virtually
impossible to buy a handgun in New York City and the result is the
number of murders per year has gone from 2,200 to under 400), it won’t
really bring about an end to these mass slayings and it will not address
the core problem we have. Connecticut had one of the strongest gun laws
in the country. That did nothing to prevent the murders of 20 small
children on December 14th.
In fact, let’s be clear about Newtown: the killer had no criminal
record so he would never have shown up on a background check. All of the
guns he used were legally purchased. None fit the legal description of
an "assault" weapon. The killer seemed to have mental problems and his
mother had him seek help, but that was worthless. As for security
measures, the Sandy Hook school was locked down and buttoned up BEFORE
the killer showed up that morning. Drills had been held for just such an
incident. A lot of good that did.
And here’s the dirty little fact none of us liberals want to discuss:
The killer only ceased his slaughter when he saw that cops were
swarming onto the school grounds – i.e, the men with the guns. When he
saw the guns a-coming, he stopped the bloodshed and killed himself. Guns
on police officers prevented another 20 or 40 or 100 deaths from
happening. Guns sometimes work. (Then again, there was an armed deputy
sheriff at Columbine High School the day of that massacre and he
couldn’t/didn’t stop it.)
I am sorry to offer this reality check on our much-needed march
toward a bunch of well-intended, necessary – but ultimately, mostly
cosmetic – changes to our gun laws. The sad facts are these: Other
countries that have guns (like Canada, which has 7 million guns – mostly
hunting guns – in their 12 million households) have a low murder rate.
Kids in Japan watch the same violent movies and kids in Australia play
the same violent video games (Grand Theft Auto was created by a British
company; the UK had 58 gun murders last year in a nation of 63 million
people). They simply don’t kill each other at the rate that we do. Why
is that? THAT is the question we should be exploring while we are
banning and restricting guns: Who are we?
I’d like to try to answer that question.
We are a country whose leaders officially sanction and carry out acts
of violence as a means to often an immoral end. We invade countries who
didn’t attack us. We’re currently using drones in a half-dozen
countries, often killing civilians.

This probably shouldn’t come as a surprise to us as we are a nation
founded on genocide and built on the backs of slaves. We slaughtered
600,000 of each other in a civil war. We "tamed the Wild West with a
six-shooter," and we rape and beat and kill our women without mercy and
at a staggering rate: every three hours a women is murdered in the USA
(half the time by an ex or a current); every three minutes a woman is
raped in the USA; and every 15 seconds a woman is beaten in the USA.
We belong to an illustrious group of nations that still have the
death penalty (North Korea, Saudi Arabia, China, Iran). We think nothing
of letting tens of thousands of our own citizens die each year because
they are uninsured and thus don’t see a doctor until it’s too late.
Why do we do this? One theory is simply "because we can." There is a
level of arrogance in the otherwise friendly American spirit, conning
ourselves into believing there’s something exceptional about us that
separates us from all those "other" countries (there are indeed many
good things about us; the same could also be said of Belgium, New
Zealand, France, Germany, etc.). We think we’re #1 in everything when
the truth is our students are 17th in science and 25th in math, and
we’re 35th in life expectancy. We believe we have the greatest democracy
but we have the lowest voting turnout of any western democracy. We’re
biggest and the bestest at everything and we demand and take what we
want.
And sometimes we have to be violent m*****f*****s to get it. But if
one of us goes off-message and shows the utterly psychotic nature and
brutal results of violence in a Newtown or an Aurora or a Virginia Tech,
then we get all "sad" and "our hearts go out to the families" and
presidents promise to take "meaningful action." Well, maybe this
president means it this time. He’d better. An angry mob of millions is
not going to let this drop.
While we are discussing and demanding what to do, may I respectfully
ask that we stop and take a look at what I believe are the three
extenuating factors that may answer the question of why we Americans
have more violence than most anyone else:
1. POVERTY. If there’s one thing that separates us from the rest of
the developed world, it’s this. 50 million of our people live in
poverty. One in five Americans goes hungry at some point during the
year. The majority of those who aren’t poor are living from paycheck to
paycheck. There’s no doubt this creates more crime. Middle class jobs
prevent crime and violence. (If you don’t believe that, ask yourself
this: If your neighbor has a job and is making $50,000/year, what are
the chances he’s going to break into your home, shoot you and take your
TV? Nil.)
2. FEAR/RACISM. We’re an awfully fearful country considering that,
unlike most nations, we’ve never been invaded. (No, 1812 wasn’t an
invasion. We started it.) Why on earth would we need 300 million guns in
our homes? I get why the Russians might be a little spooked (over 20
million of them died in World War II). But what’s our excuse? Worried
that the Indians from the casino may go on the warpath? Concerned that
the Canadians seem to be amassing too many Tim Horton’s donut shops on
both sides of the border?
No. It’s because too many white people are afraid of black people.
Period. The vast majority of the guns in the U.S. are sold to white
people who live in the suburbs or the country. When we fantasize about
being mugged or home invaded, what’s the image of the perpetrator in our
heads? Is it the freckled-face kid from down the street – or is it
someone who is, if not black, at least poor?
I think it would be worth it to a) do our best to eradicate poverty
and re-create the middle class we used to have, and b) stop promoting
the image of the black man as the boogeyman out to hurt you. Calm down,
white people, and put away your guns.
3. THE "ME" SOCIETY. I think it’s the every-man-for-himself ethos of
this country that has put us in this mess and I believe it’s been our
undoing. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps! You’re not my problem!
This is mine!
Clearly, we are no longer our brother’s and sister’s keeper. You get
sick and can’t afford the operation? Not my problem. The bank has
foreclosed on your home? Not my problem. Can’t afford to go to college?
Not my problem.
And yet, it all sooner or later becomes our problem, doesn’t it? Take
away too many safety nets and everyone starts to feel the impact. Do
you want to live in that kind of society, one where you will then have a
legitimate reason to be in fear? I don’t.
I’m not saying it’s perfect anywhere else, but I have noticed, in my
travels, that other civilized countries see a national benefit to taking
care of each other. Free medical care, free or low-cost college, mental
health help. And I wonder – why can’t we do that? I think it’s
because in many other countries people see each other not as separate
and alone but rather together, on the path of life, with each person
existing as an integral part of the whole. And you help them when
they’re in need, not punish them because they’ve had some misfortune or
bad break. I have to believe one of the reasons gun murders in other
countries are so rare is because there’s less of the lone wolf mentality
amongst their citizens. Most are raised with a sense of connection, if
not outright solidarity. And that makes it harder to kill one another.
Well, there’s some food for thought as we head home for the holidays.
Don’t forget to say hi to your conservative brother-in-law for me. Even
he will tell you that, if you can’t nail a deer in three shots – and
claim you need a clip of 30 rounds – you’re not a hunter my friend, and
you have no business owning a gun.
Have a wonderful Christmas or a beautiful December 25th!
Yours, Michael Moore MMFlint@MichaelMoore.com@MMFlintMichaelMoore.com

EMMY is my brother Kirk's 10 year old granddaughter and today she has a new heart. She was born with a defective heart and already had one transplant and was doing well until she got sick this Fall and her heart became infected. After a couple of months in and out of the hospital and one death experience (when Emmy did meet God) her heart deteriorated to the point she was in the hospital waiting for a new heart. My sister in law, Janice, called Thursday afternoon. She was crying and I feared the worst but she told me they were on the way to Dallas (from Abilene) and that Emmy was getting a new heart!Kirk just called me at 0630ET. Emmy has her new heart and it is beating on it's own and she is doing well, though still sedated. The surgery took 9 1/2 hours, but the doctors a very optimistic she is going to be OK. THANK YOU GOD!!!!And thank you God for the family that made the decision to donate their child's heart. Something horrible has happened in the life of another family and they have lost a child, but they made the decision to give life to another by donating their child's heart to someone who needs it. Please God, be with this family and comfort them, and let them know how thankful we are to them. PLEASE, IF YOU ARE NOT AN ORGAN DONOR BECOME ONE TODAY. MAKE SURE YOUR FAMILY KNOWS YOU ARE AN ORGAN DONOR TOO. DON'T TAKE YOUR ORGANS TO HEAVEN BECAUSE HEAVEN KNOWS WE NEED THEM HERE!!!!

21 December 2012

ONE WEEK AFTER THE MASS SHOOTINGS AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN NEWTOWN, CT HERE ARE THE STORIES OF 151 VICTIMS OF MASS SHOOTINGS IN THE U.S. IN 2012. SOME ARE ALREADY WEARY OF ALL THE NEWS AND ARTICLES AND POSTINGS AND TALK OF THE LATEST TRAGEDY AND WANT TO FOCUS ON CHRISTMAS. CONSIDER THE LIVES SHATTERED BY THESE EVENTS, THOSE WHO WILL NOT BE CELEBRATING HOLIDAYS, BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES. THIS FROM MOTHER JONES.....

Bearing witness to the worst year of gun rampages in modern US history.

—By Mother Jones staff

The
media coverage tends to linger on the killers. But as the nation mourns
the excruciating losses in Newtown—and finally begins to confront an
epidemic of mass shootings amid the worst year for them in modern US history—it
is equally important to bear witness to the victims. What follows are
portraits of 151 people physically wounded or killed in the rampages of
2012. In addition to the victims of this year's seven mass shootings,
we've included the victims of similar but less lethal rampages in a Portland shopping mall, a Milwaukee spa, and a Cleveland high school.
The
total number of lives devastated by these attacks far exceeds 151, of
course, starting with survivors who narrowly escaped physical harm, such
as the unidentified six-year-old girl who played dead and walked out of Sandy Hook Elementary School against all odds. Mother Jones has
only included photos of those injured and killed that were shared
publicly by the families or survivors themselves, or for which we were
granted specific permission. For essential context and findings from our
in-depth investigation, also see our guide to mass shootings in America.

Charlotte Bacon, 6

Charlotte,
a Girl Scout, loved tae kwon do, animals, and the color pink. On the
day of her death, she wore a new pink dress and pink boots to school. Source

Daniel Barden, 7

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Daniel
was the kind of kid who would open doors for adults, his parents
recalled. “Our son had so much love to give to this world,” his father
said. “He was supposed to have a whole lifetime of bringing that light
to the world.” Source

Rachel D'Avino, 29

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

D'Avino,
a teacher's aide, had been working toward her doctorate at the
University of St. Joseph's Institute of Autism and Behavioral Studies.
Her boyfriend had been planning to propose to her on Christmas Eve. Source

Olivia Engel, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Olivia
played tennis and soccer, loved dancing, and took art classes. "She was
a great big sister and was always very patient with her three-year-old
brother, Brayden," her family said, according to the Associated Press.
"Her only crime," a family friend said, "is being a wiggly, smiley
six-year-old." Source

Josephine Gay, 7

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Family and friends nicknamed Josephine "Boo" after the character in Monsters, Inc.
She loved riding her bike, setting up lemonade stands in the summer,
and had just celebrated her seventh birthday. Her family has established
a fund in her name through the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Source

Natalie Hammond, 40

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Injured but survived.

Hammond is the lead teacher at Sandy Hook. She was one of two people who survived after being shot at the school. Source

Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, 47

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Hochsprung
was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School. A former PTA
secretary said she was "always enthusiastic, always smiling, always game
to do anything…When I saw her at the beginning of the school year, she
was hugging everyone." Hochsprung was one of the first to confront the
shooter. Source

Dylan Hockley, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Dylan,
whose family had moved from the United Kingdom two years earlier, loved
playing tag, seeing the moon, and eating chocolate. He reportedly died
while wrapped in the arms of his teacher's aide, Anne Marie Murphy, who
was killed. Source

Madeleine Hsu, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

"Maddy" was described as a shy six-year-old who would "light up" around her neighbor's golden retriever. Source

Catherine Hubbard, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

To
honor Catherine's love of animals, her family is asking for donations
to be made in her name to an animal center. "We are greatly saddened by
the loss of our beautiful daughter, Catherine Violet, and our thoughts
and prayers are with the other families who have been affected by this
tragedy," her parents said in a statement. Source

Chase Kowalski, 7

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Chase, an athletic first-grader, ran in community road races and loved baseball, his family wrote in his obituary. Source

Nancy Lanza, 52

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Lanza
was the mother of shooter Adam Lanza. An avid gun collector, Nancy
Lanza was killed in her home before her son continued to Sandy Hook
Elementary School. Source

Jesse Lewis, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

The
morning of the shooting, six-year-old Jesse (right) couldn't wait to go
to school because they would be making gingerbread houses. Jesse
reportedly ran into the hall when he heard the shooting and died while
trying to lead other children to safety. Source

Ana Marquez-Greene, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

The daughter of a jazz pianist, Ana "was an incredibly loving and spunky kid," a family friend told the New Haven Register. Source

James Mattioli, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

"J"
sang in the shower and to himself as he fell asleep, his mother
recalled at his funeral. He loved doing yard work with his dad, watching
America's Funniest Home Videos with his sister, and wanted to know how old he'd have to be in order to eat a foot-long at Subway. Source

Grace Audrey McDonnell, 7

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Seven-year-old Grace dreamed of living on Martha's Vineyard and being a painter when she grew up. Source

Anne Marie Murphy, 52

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Murphy,
a special-education teacher and mother of four, was found covering a
group of children with her body. "She was a happy soul," her mother
recalled. "She was a very good daughter, a good mother, a good wife."
Dylan Hockley, a six-year-old she had wrapped in her arms, did not
survive. Source

Emilie Parker, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Emilie
was a budding artist who carried her markers and pencils everywhere.
Her grandfather recently passed away, and Emilie paid tribute to him by
slipping a special card she had drawn into his casket, her father
recalled. Source

Jack Pinto, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Jack
loved school, reading, wrestling, skiing, football (he was a New York
Giants fan), playing with friends, and trying to keep up with his big
brother. Source

Noah Pozner, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Noah
and his twin sister, Arielle, celebrated their sixth birthdays less
than a month earlier. Arielle, who was in another class, survived. Source

Caroline Previdi, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Caroline loved to dance and draw. At her funeral, men wore pink ties in honor of her favorite color. Source

Jessica Rekos, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Jessica
loved horses, wanted real cowboy boots, and learned to tie her shoes by
looking up a YouTube video. She left behind two brothers, one of whom
was born in April. Source

Avielle Richman, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

"Avie" loved Harry Potter and tried her hand at archery after being inspired by the movie Brave. Her family had moved to Connecticut from California two years earlier. Source

Lauren Rousseau, 30

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Rousseau was a substitute teacher at Sandy Hook. Teaching was her lifelong dream, according to her mother. Source

Mary Sherlach, 56

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Sherlach (right) had been a school psychologist at Sandy Hook since 1994. Source

Victoria Soto, 27

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Soto
was a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook. "The family was informed that
she was trying to shield, get her children into a closet and protect
them from harm, and by doing that put herself between the gunman and the
children," her cousin told ABC News. "Her life dream was to be a
teacher. And her instincts kicked in when she saw there was harm coming
to her students." Source

Benjamin Wheeler, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

"There was no dimmer switch or governor plate on this kid," Ben's grandfather told the Denver Post.
At a recent recital, he ran to and from the piano bench. Ben's
nine-year-old brother was also at Sandy Hook Elementary on the day of
the shooting but survived. Source

Allison Wyatt, 6

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Did not survive.

Allison
"was a sweet, creative, funny, intelligent little girl who had an
amazing life ahead of her," her family said in a statement. "Our world
is a lot darker now that she's gone. We love and miss her so much." Source

Identity unknown

Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Injured but survived.

A second woman survived her wounds from the Newtown shooting, but no information about her has been released yet. Source

Steve Forsyth, 45

Clackamas Town Center Shooting

Did not survive.

Forsyth
left behind a wife, son, and stepdaughter. "Dad never had a hard time
making friends, but what was most impressive was he never had a hard
time keeping them," his stepdaughter said at his funeral, which was
attended by more than 2,200 people. Source

Prakash Singh, 39

Punjab Singh, 65

Sikh Temple Shooting

Injured but survived.

Singh
is a traveling Sikh priest from India. Singh's two sons came to the
United States to be with him after he was shot in the face. As of late
August, Singh was in a coma. His current condition is unclear. Source

Ranjit Singh, 49

Sikh Temple Shooting

Did not survive.

Ranjit Singh (right) and his brother Sita Singh, who was also killed, were both Sikh priests. Source

Santokh Singh, 50

Sikh Temple Shooting

Injured but survived.

Singh
is a traveling Sikh priest from India. Singh's two sons and wife came
to the United States while he recovered from a gunshot that ripped
through his torso. Source

Brandon Axelrod, 30

Axelrod
crouched with his wife of two weeks, Denise Traynom, and their friend
Joshua Nowlan during the shooting. All three survived. Axelrod was
injured in the knee and ankle. Source

Stephen Barton, 22

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Barton
stopped at the Aurora theater during a cross-country bicycling trip
from Virginia Beach to San Francisco. After surviving the shooting, he
deferred a Fulbright teaching scholarship to advocate gun control. Source

Tony Billapando

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Billapando,
who was pregnant at the time, was protected by her husband and escaped
with minor scratches. Her husband, Bryson, also survived. Source

Christina Blanche

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Blanche,
an Iraq War vet, was at the theater celebrating Alex Sullivan's 27th
birthday. A bullet passed through one of her legs and lodged in the
other knee. Sullivan was killed. Source

Jonathan Blunk, 26

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Blunk,
a Navy vet, worked for a flooring company and lived in Aurora.
According to his girlfriend, who survived the shooting, he died while
trying to shield her. Source

Alexander Boik, 18

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Boik
had recently graduated from Gateway High School, where he was a catcher
on the baseball team through his junior year. He had planned to start
art school in the fall. Boik was at the theater with his girlfriend, who
survived. A friend told CBS Denver that they were the "perfect couple."
Source

Andrew Bowers, 19

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Bowers, a college basketball player, managed to escape with a scrapes on his forehead and knees. Source

Jarell Brooks, 18

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Brooks
shielded a mother and her two young children, risking his life to get
them safely out of the theater. He was shot in the thigh. Source

Maria Carbonell, 33

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Carbonell, a mother of three, described her injuries as "superficial." Source

Alejandra Cardona-Lamas

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Cardona-Lamas, a recent high school graduate, received four holes in her legs from shrapnel and projectiles. Source

Evan Farris

Jacqueline Fry, 23

Fry, a recent business college graduate and an aspiring nurse, was hit in the legs by shrapnel from a tear gas cannister. Source

Nickelas Gallup, 31

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Gallup
was shot near his left eye. Afterward, Gallup lost his job as the
manager of a restaurant because it was too close to the theater. Source

Yousef Gharbi, 16

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Gharbi, a high school student, was shot in the head and hit by shrapnel in his upper body. Source

Jessica Ghawi, 24

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Ghawi was an aspiring sportswriter and blogger. She had recently survived another mass shooting in Toronto. Source

Zachary Golditch, 17

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Golditch,
a Colorado State football recruit, told ESPN that the shrapnel wounds
in the side of his neck felt like "fireworks blew up in my ear." Source

Munirih Gravelly, 31

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Gravelly, an Air Force reservist, lost her friend, fellow reservist Jesse Childress, when he threw himself in front of her. Source

Eugene Han

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Han was shot in the knee and hip. His best friend and girlfriend moved him and another injured friend to the emergency exit. Source

Gage Hankins, 18

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Hankins
was with a group of friends and his brother at the theater. He was
wounded in the arm but insisted that the medics try to help others who
were more seriously hurt, his uncle told USA Today. Source

Amanda Hernandez-Memije

McKayla Hicks, 17

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Hicks
was hit in the face by a bullet that entered from the theater next
door. She expects to recover and return to play volleyball, basketball,
and soccer. Hicks later returned to the theater to see The Dark Knight Rises
again. "I wanted to see the scene that I got hit at," she said. The
bullet will remain in her jaw permanently because doctors say removing
it will cause too much nerve damage. Source

Marcus Kizzar

John Larimer, 27

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Larimer was a Navy sailor based at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora. Source

Patricia Legarreta, 25

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Legarreta
protected her four-year-old daughter, Azeria, receiving shrapnel wounds
in her leg. She did not notice her wounds until they had escaped the
theater. Both her four-month-old son, Ethan Rohrs, and her daughter also
survived. Source

Kelly Lewis

Brent Lowak, 27

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Lowak,
who was training to become an EMT, was applying pressure to a leg wound
on his best friend, Jessica Ghawi, when she was fatally shot in the
head. A bullet entered Lowak's buttocks and went into his shoulder.
Since he did not have health insurance, friends, family, and supporters
have raised money to pay for his multiple surgeries. He plans to finish
his degree in fire science next year. Source

Ryan Lumba, 17

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Lumba
had planned on attending Western State Colorado University in the fall,
but had to postpone due to the 18 severe abdominal wounds that left him
in critical condition. Source

Matthew McQuinn, 27

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

McQuinn was at the theater with his girlfriend, Samantha Yowler. He threw himself in front of Yowler during the attack. Source

Micayla Medek, 23

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Medek was enrolled in the Community College of Aurora. The Los Angeles Times
reported that friends tried to carry her out of the theater after she
was wounded, but paramedics said there was nothing they could do to help
her. Source

Caleb Medley, 23

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Medley,
an aspiring comedian, sustained a head wound that put him in critical
condition. His wife, Katie, gave birth to their first child days later. Source

Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Veronica
was the youngest person killed in the shooting. She was at the theater
with her mother, Ashley Moser, who was shot and paralyzed. Source

Ashley Moser, 25

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Moser's
six-year-old daughter, Veronica, was killed in the shooting. Her
boyfriend, Jamison Toews, was injured but survived. Moser, who was eight
weeks pregnant, suffered a miscarriage while hospitalized for a spinal
wound that left her legs paralyzed. Source

Stefan Moton

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Moton had a severed spine. As of August 2012, he was paralyzed and needed ventilators to breathe, according to USA Today. Source

Joshua Nowlan, 32

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Nowlan,
who hid behind theater seats with his friends Brandon Axelrod and
Denise Traynom, was wounded in the leg and arm. All three survived. Image: 9NEWS (KUSA).Source

Pierce O'Farill, 28

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

O'Farrill,
who was at the theater with his friend Carey Rottman, recalled praying
during the shooting. He was wounded in his chest, arm, and foot. Source

Prodeo Patria, 14

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Patria,
a high school student, was at the theater with his father and mother.
He did not tell his father that he'd been shot in the back until he had
helped evacuate another injured person. Patria's mother, Rita Paulina,
was shot three times and survived. Patria's father also escaped. Source

Rita Paulina, 45

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Paulina
was at the theater with her son and husband. Her left leg and arm were
wounded. Her son, Prodeo Patria, was shot in the back, but survived. Her
husband also escaped. Source

Bonnie Kate Pourciau, 18

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Pourciau
(right) was on a cross-country road trip when she and a friend stopped
in Aurora. Another moviegoer carried her out of the theater after she
was wounded badly in the legs. Source

Christopher Rapoza, 28

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Rapoza,
the bassist for a Brooklyn punk band, was on vacation with his
girlfriend. His girlfriend escaped unharmed. Rapoza was grazed on the
back. Source

Carli Richards, 22

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

When
a tear gas canister landed in front of Richards, a Navy veteran, she
ran outside the theater with her boyfriend. In the parking lot, she
realized she had been wounded 22 times by shotgun pellets in the back,
arm, and legs. Source

Ethan Rohrs, 4 months

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Along
with his four-year-old sister, Azeria, four-month-old Ethan was
protected from the gunfire by his mother, Patricia Legarreta. He
received minor injuries, and his sister also survived. Source

Dion Roseborough, 39

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Roseborough,
a Navy vet and supervisor for the Postal Office, received multiple
wounds and was comatose for a short time after the shooting. Source

Carey Rottman, 27

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

After
Rottman (left), a former Winona State University football player,
escaped the theater with a gunshot wound to his leg, a teenager named
Stephanie Rodriguez used her belt as a tourniquet on his thigh. Source

Lucas Smith, 26

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Smith, a former minister, was hit by shotgun pellets in his leg. Source

Heather Snyder

Farrah Soudani, 22

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Soudani
had been waitressing, saving up money to study massage. When she was
shot in the abdomen, her boyfriend's father, Mike White, wrapped his
T-shirt around her wounds and covered her with his body. Her boyfriend,
Michael White, was shot in the shoulder and lung. Source

Catherine Streib, 16

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Streib, a Girl Scout and student at Overland High School, was injured during the shooting. Source

Alex Sullivan, 27

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Sullivan was at the theater celebrating his 27th birthday, two days before his first wedding aniversary. Source

Alexander Teves, 24

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Teves had recently earned a master’s in counseling psychology from the University of Denver. Source

Jamison Toews

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Toews
was at the theater with his with pregnant girlfriend, Ashley Moser, and
her daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan. "I saw what you never want to
see and it was Veronica's lifeless body lying there," Toews told the Mail Online. Source

Denise Traynom, 24

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Traynom
had been married to Brandon Axelrod for just two weeks. Traynom,
Axelrod, and their friend Joshua Nowlan huddled together during the
shooting. All three survived. Source

Marcus Weaver, 41

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Weaver,
a manager at a nonprofit thrift store, was shot twice. He tried to
cover his friend, Rebecca Wingo, but she was fatally wounded. Source

Michael White, 33

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

When
the shooting began, White's father, Mike, yelled at his son and his
son's girlfriend, Farrah Soudani, to crouch. White's father wrapped
Soudani's abdominal wounds with his T-shirt and covered her body with
his own. White's father survived. A bullet entered White's shoulder and
went through his lung. Soudani was badly injured but survived. Source

David Williams, 37

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Williams told the Daily Beast
that he saw Holmes' silhouette at the front of the theater when he
first entered but believed it was part of the show. He saw a father
carry his wounded daughter out of the theater as he fled. Source

Rebecca Wingo, 32

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Did not survive.

Wingo, who worked for the Air Force as a translator and spoke Mandarin, was a mother of two. Source

Allie Young, 19

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

After
Young was shot in the neck, her friend, Stephanie Davies, applied
pressure to the wound to keep her alive. Young and Davies told the BBC
that they played dead when the shooter passed by them. Source

Jansen Young, 21

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Young
had earned an associate's degree in animal science in June. She was at
the theater with her boyfriend, Jon Blunk, who shoved her under a seat
when the shooting started. He died. Source

Samantha Yowler, 26

Aurora Movie Theater Shooting

Injured but survived.

Yowler's
boyfriend, Matthew McQuinn, and her brother, Nick Yowler, tried to
shield her. She was shot in the knee. McQuinn was killed, but the
brother survived. Source

Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38

Bhutia,
an immigrant from India, had been studying nursing and working nights
as a custodian at the San Francisco airport, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Source

Doris Chibuko, 40

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Chibuko
was two months short of graduating; she had planned to become a nurse.
She loved to cook and worked part time at a mental-health rehabilitation
center. She left behind a husband and three daughters aged three to
eight. Source

Sonam Chodon, 33

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Chodon was a former nursing student at the school, police told the San Francisco Chronicle. Before immigrating from India, she had worked for the Tibetan government in exile's department of education. Source

Dawinder Kaur, 19

Oikos University Shooting

Injured but survived.

The
shooter entered Kaur's classroom, ordered students to stand against the
wall, and opened fire. Kaur, an Army reservist, helped a friend who had
fallen on the floor escape. Kaur was shot in the right arm. Source

Grace Eunhae Kim, 23

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Kim
had been studying nursing at Oikos while working at restaurants.
According to her brother Paul, she hoped to one day to start her own
airline and to take her mother traveling around the world. "She was the
best sister, my best friend," he said at her memorial service. Source

Grace Kirika, 43

Oikos University Shooting

Injured but survived.

Kirika was a nursing student at Oikos at the time of the shooting. Source

Katleen Ping, 24

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Ping
worked as a secretary at Oikos and left behind a four-year-old son. Her
family held a memorial service without her body, since the coroner
could only release it to her husband, who was in the Philippines at the
time. Source

Ahmad Javid Sayeed, 36

Oikos University Shooting

Injured but survived.

Originally
from Kabul, Afghanistan, Sayeed had only been a nursing student at
Oikos for three months before being shot in his shoulder when One Goh
entered his classroom. Though he realized he was bleeding, Sayeed was
able to escape with two other students and hide in another room. Source

Judith Seymour, 53

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Born
in Guyana, Seymour was the mother of two adult children and was engaged
to be married. She had been studying to obtain her nursing license.
"Every decision she made in life, every course she took, the first
consideration and No. 1 priority was her children," her fiancé told ABC
7. Source

Lydia Sim, 21

Oikos University Shooting

Did not survive.

Sim
(right) had been studying nursing with the goal of going to medical
school and becoming a pediatrician. "She could brighten up the whole
room," her younger brother, Daniel, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Source

Demetrius Hewlin, 16

Chardon High School Shooting

Did not survive.

Known
as "D" by friends and family, Hewlin was shot in the back of the head
when sitting in the Chardon High School cafeteria with friends. He
enjoyed working out, playing computer games, reading books, and
volunteering at a Habitat for Humanity resale shop. Source

Russell King, Jr., 17

Chardon High School Shooting

Did not survive.

King
was shot in the back while waiting for a bus to a vocational school. He
loved to fish, camp, and hunt with family, and had been studying
alternative energy technology. Source

Nate Mueller, 16

Chardon High School Shooting

Injured but survived.

Mueller used to be friends with the shooter in middle school. He escaped the shooting with a grazed ear. Source

Daniel Parmertor, 16

Chardon High School Shooting

Did not survive.

Parmertor
was waiting for a bus in the Chardon High School cafeteria when he was
fatally shot. He had been studying computer networks and enjoyed video
games and snowboarding. Source

Joy Rickers, 18

Chardon High School Shooting

Injured but survived.

Rickers was one of three people who was wounded but survived the Chardon High School shooting. Source

Nick Walczak, 17

Chardon High School Shooting

Injured but survived.

Walczak
was shot four times when sitting in the Chardon High School cafeteria
with friends, his mother told ABC News. A teacher, Joseph Ricci, pulled
him into another room and cared for him until paramdedics arrived.
Walczak was initially paralyzed from the chest down, and is undergoing
physical therapy. Source

Tae-yeol Kim, 55

This
project was reported and written by Mark Follman, Jaeah Lee, Sydney
Brownstone, Maggie Severns, Gavin Aronsen, and Brett Brownell. It was
edited and produced by Mark Follman, Dave Gilson, Tasneem Raja, Ben
Breedlove, and Jaeah Lee.